Digi Telecommunications Sdn. Bhd., DBAdigi, is a mobile service provider in Malaysia. It is owned in majority by TelenorASA of Norway with 49%. On 24 May 1995 Digi became the first telco in Malaysia to launch and operate a fully digital cellular network.

They were also the first to offer GPRS (2.5G) and later EDGE (2.75G) in Malaysia on 14 May 2004. DiGi primarily uses the 1800 MHz band for GSM with the network code of 502-16.

Digi is listed on the Bursa Malaysia under the Infrastructure category act.

It uses the native dialling prefix identifier of "010", "016", "0143", "0146" and "0149", although with the implementation of Mobile number portability mandated by the Malaysian government this does not apply to subscribers who switched from their old mobile service provider over to Digi. At the moment, switching to DiGi is free.

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As of April 2016, DiGi has 2G coverage of 95% on populated areas, 3G at 87%,[7] 4G LTE at 73%. LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) population coverage is currently at 33% nationwide, likely measured at the lowest signal quality at -110dBm.[8]

As of second quarter of 2016, Digi has 12.35 million subscribers (10.39 million prepaid, and 1.95 million postpaid customers). 64.5% are Internet users. About 62% Digi subscribers are smartphone users. There are 6 million prepaid Internet users. The Telco said that it now has 3.3 million 4G LTE users.[citation needed]

Postpaid ARPU is at RM82 (upfrom RM80 in Q1 2016) while prepaid ARPU is at RM34 (down from RM35 in Q1 2016).[11]

In 2014, Digi was ranked 100th on Forbes World’s Most Innovative Companies 2014.[12] Digi was the only Malaysian company, and the only telecommunications operator from Asia to be on the list.

In 2015, Channel News Asia ranked digi as one of the top 3 companies in Malaysia[13] and ranked 40 in Asia Top 100 Sustainability Ranking.[14] digi is lauded for its "preemptive measures to safeguard the privacy of its 11.4 million customers by adopting the ISO 27000 information security management system certification and conducting third party independent assessments to strengthen its privacy systems and processes".[13]